Blaz: I will fix elite HS admission

MAYOR DE BLASIO vowed to revive his stalled project to remake admissions to the city’s elite high schools Friday after new admissions data once again revealed dismal diversity stats for the schools.

De Blasio campaigned for mayor in 2013 on a promise to admit more black and Hispanic kids to the city’s eight specialized high schools, including Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech (below) and Stuyvesant High School, which use a single exam as their sole admissions criteria.

Those schools enroll just 10% black and Hispanic students, despite the fact that those kids make up more than 70% of all students in city schools.

And new admissions data for 2018 released in March shows the situation isn’t changing.

Since being elected, de Blasio has insisted he’s powerless to alter admissions to the schools, citing state law. But when radio host Brian Lehrer asked de Blasio about changing their admissions criteria on his weekly appearance on WNYC, de Blasio said he’d talk to his lawyers about it again.

“I want to have that power, unquestionably, and so far in the view